The Economics of Military Expenditures: Military Expenditure, Economic Growth and Fluctuations

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Military Expenditure and the Arms Trade: Problems of the Data....Pages 3-28
A Note on the International Comparison of Military Expenditures....Pages 29-46
Quantitative and Causal Analysis of Military Expenditures....Pages 47-68
Negotiations to Reduce Military Expenditures — Problems and Possibilities....Pages 69-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Military Expenditures and Economic Growth: Some Theoretical Remarks....Pages 87-103
The Burden of Defence in Developing Countries....Pages 104-112
Economic Growth, Military Expenditure, Arms Industry and Arms Transfer in Latin America....Pages 113-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Semantic Variations on Richardson’s Armaments Dynamics....Pages 141-179
Can Arms Races Lead to the Outbreak of War?....Pages 180-196
US Foreign Assistance, Israeli Resource Allocation and the Arms Race in the Middle East: An Analysis of Three Interdependent Resource Allocation Processes....Pages 197-238
Arms Resupply During Conflict: A Framework for Analysis....Pages 239-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Efficiency, Industry and Alternative Weapons Procurement Policies....Pages 283-303
Re-evaluating Economic and Technological Variables to Explain Global Arms Production and Sales....Pages 304-335
Civil Versus Military R & D Expenditures and Industrial Productivity....Pages 336-356
Arms Production in Third World Countries, Effects on Industrialisation....Pages 357-383
Back Matter....Pages 385-391